<p>Interview invite from Johns Hopkins BCMB! :)</p>
<p>By email about 30 minutes ago. So middle of the night on the East Coast? And apparently the admissions committee hasn’t even met yet. This feels so unreal.</p>
<p>Has anyone been contacted by MIT about their application being complete? There isn’t a place to check if transcripts and GRE scores have been received.</p>
<p>Post stats please tswift</p>
<p>tswift, how do you know the committee hasn’t met yet?</p>
<p>congrats, but im hoping to hear back from them soon! my app was submitted on the 5th, but technically not completed until the 10th. i hope that doesn’t negatively affect my chances so much i dont get an interview!</p>
<p>Don’t freak out about Hopkins! The email specifically said the admissions committee hadn’t met yet. He just liked my application (probably SOP) and didn’t want to wait to invite me. The majority of invites will come later. I guess it’s the same deal with Yale, but I’m not one of the top applicants there lol.</p>
<p>And I posted my stats already, page 4.</p>
<p>tswift, what is your major at UC Berkeley? PS Congrats! :)</p>
<p>Haha, this thread is poisonous!</p>
<p>@AliG89 Adcoms do check online information from time to time. They don’t have time to do this for all applicants, but if there is a reason they want to see more information then Google is the go to place. It is a good idea to tighten your facebook privacy settings and loosen your LinkedIn privacy settings during application season. This means you can substitute professional profile info for social profile info in the search results. It gives you one more chance to provide evidence of your professional intent that supports the application.</p>
<p>Just got a call from Yale Pharmacology!! I am so so happy right now. Couldn’t care less for my final in 3 hours.</p>
<p>(blasting party in the USA now)</p>
<p>So when I log into my submitted UPenn application it says “Application Status: Incomplete” and then lists everything below that as complete or received. Anyone else have this problem? I’m not sure if I should email the admissions coordinator because they kind of told us not to bother them … I just don’t want to miss my application being reviewed because of some computer error! Thoughts?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who were called for Yale Pharmacology interviews!</p>
<p>Which begs the qustion: does the Yale BBS program divvy application reviews to each sub-department separately?</p>
<p>Sorry to go slightly off topic, but does anyone know what the protocol is for e-mailing admissions coordinators to set up interviews? Do you just e-mail them saying you were contacted for an interview and wait for them to respond and tell you what they need from you, or should you give details in the first e-mail (like where you will be coming from, dates you are visiting, etc.)</p>
<p>Any insight (especially from those who have gone through the process) would be very helpful!</p>
<p>@phagocytosis: The same thing happened with my UPenn app. I e-mailed the adm. coordinator and he fixed it right away. He didn’t seem bothered by my e-mail.</p>
<p>because of a large number of applications received and all paper documents have to be manually scanned and updated to system, the application status might show incomplete. you can contact to make sure. some schools don’t want applicants to send official transcripts until admitted (UVa, VTech, Duke are the 3 schools I applied that don’t ask me to send official transcripts), and my application status appears Incomplete. however, they sent email to me and said the admission process still goes as normal with the scanned version.</p>
<p>I’m surprised how unpopulated this thread is. Not too many new people posting about apps and such…</p>
<p>@phagocytosis</p>
<p>I’m having a similar problem and just contacted admissions. It says they don’t have my transcripts but I sent them at the end of October and every other school has received them by now. My guess is they are still updating applications with supplementary materials.</p>
<p>@virology</p>
<p>perhaps that indicates fewer people are applying to grad school!</p>
<p>Just waiting on responses…</p>
<p>Undergrad: Stony Brook University
Major: Biochemistry
GPA: 2.54
Years of Research Experience: 4 years + 1 summer
-over 5 second author publications
-1 published first author review
-1 submitted first author original article
-over 10 abstracts (1st/2nd author)
-4 strong letters of rec
GRE Scores: 760Q(84%) 660V(94%) 4.5AW(72%)
Prospective Graduate Program: Immunology/Pathobiology/Neuro
Prospective Graduate Schools:
NYU Sackler
Columbia Medical School
Cornell Weill
CUNY (Biology)
Hofstra Medical School (Biomed)
Rockefeller
Albert Einstein
Mount Sinai</p>
<p>Sorry for the spam, I didn’t know how to edit my original post. But the administrator at UPenn got back to me just now and said that they’re still processing materials. So fast, sounds like a nice guy!</p>
<p>@greenertea He is just as nice as he seems! Always there for his students and super helpful! </p>
<p>Washington University also sent out some interview invites last week.</p>